CHEM 3350 Fall 2014 Syllabus Section 001 M, W, F 11:00 to 11:50 305 Durham Science Center Instructor: Edmund L. Tisko Office: 333 Durham Science Center Office Hours: M, W, F from 10:00 to 10:50 (or by appointment) Phone: 554-3640 Email: [email protected] (I am an unreliable email responder.) Home Phone: 558-6994 [Cell 681-4433] Website: www.unomaha.edu/tiskochem/Chem3350/ Course Objectives: For most of you, this course will be the last course you will take in thermodynamics and kinetics. However, your understanding of chemical phenomena and chemical techniques will rely greatly on the material learned in this course. Thermodynamics, the study of energy and its changes, sometimes referred to as the queen of the sciences, is a mathematically intensive study. We start the course with two weeks of learning applied mathematical techniques. Other mathematics will be introduced as needed. The concepts and ideas that we will cover in this course are often difficult to comprehend. Even though many such ideas are over one hundred and fifty years old, modern-day chemists and physicists, including Nobel laureates, still have difficulty in understanding many of the underlying concepts and implications of thermodynamics. Application of these ideas can be very difficult especially in the realm of non-equilibrium processes. Thermodynamics has its utility in the fact that a large amount of information can be gathered about a particular piece of matter by performing a handful of physical measurements. Additionally, we will see that such information does not depend on knowing the particulars of the structure of matter. Indeed many of the 19th-century geniuses that developed thermodynamics were very skeptical about the reality of atoms and of course, knew nothing about electrons, protons or neutrons. Hopefully over the course of the semester, you gain an appreciation for the subtle and awesome beauty of thermodynamics. I have seven main course objectives 1. Understand partial differentiation and line integrals and their application to thermodynamics 2. Understand the four laws of thermodynamics and their applications 3. Be able to use free energy to understand chemical and physical equilibria 4. Be able to interpret multi-component phase diagrams 5. Understand the thermodynamic basis within the nature of electrolytic and nonelectrolytic solutions 6. Know how electrochemical measurements are used in the service of thermodynamics 7. Understand the role of kinetics in understanding the microscopic changes in chemical reactions The objectives above also are a loose course outline.2 Attendance Policy: All students are expected to attend every class meeting. Attendance will be taken. Three misses will be considered grace. Each missed meeting, for any reason, beyond three will lower your final course percentage 5%. Do not miss class! Seminars: Attendance is expected at seminars on Mondays at 12:00. 2 points additional credit towards the overall course grade will be given for each seminar attended. Office Hours: While I have put official office hours on the syllabus that I will honor, I expect to see each student in my office any time he is struggling too much. In addition, I have put my cell phone on the syllabus that you may call at any courteous hour (before 9:00 p.m.). Very Important: If you find yourself struggling in the course, please see me quickly. Don’t wait! The material covered in most of this course is sequential. If you are struggling early, the problems will not go away. I emphasize, please see me if you are agonizing over a problem. A bit of struggle is good. Too much struggle is not. Homework Policy: Since science is often a collaborative effort, you are encouraged, even expected, to work on the homework together in small groups. However, students still need to do their own work and submit each assignment separately. If you do work together on a homework assignment, be sure that you give your fellow collaborators credit. To give such credit is an important courtesy is science. Failure to list collaborators will be considered academic dishonesty. All homework submitted for grading needs to be presented clearly, neatly and with the complete problem statement preceding the solution. In the event that homework is submitted in an unacceptable condition, a student will be given a warning on the first homework set and be allowed to resubmit it. After the first homework, sloppy homework will be given no credit. Homework Assignments: Homework will be due every Friday at the beginning of class. The first two assignments will be problems assigned to help learn the mathematics material. The rest of the assignments will be selected exercises from the workbook, Physical Chemistry: A Guided Inquiry, Thermodynamics. Homework will be submitted in a bound notebook. Any binding is permissible (spiral may be cheapest); but, no loose leaf paper will be permitted. These assignments must be submitted in a neat format with the question being answered explicitly copied into the homework notebook. Please refer to the Homework Policy above. The schedule of assignments is listed on the last page of this syllabus. Thermodynamics Workbook: The workbook, Physical Chemistry: A Guided Inquiry, Thermodynamics, will also be used to emphasize concepts presented in lecture. All of the “Critical Thinking Questions” within each of the “Activities” are to be completed within the workbook. Workbooks will be collected before each exam to be graded. Academic Integrity: All work done is expected to be your own work. Compromising one’s academic integrity will not be tolerated. Compromises are made when you use someone else’s work as your own or when you allow someone else to use your own work. The use of unauthorized notes in a quiz or examination will be considered a compromise of integrity. Those caught endangering their academic integrity will receive a zero as the least possible punishment. More likely, those caught cheating will be given a failing grade for the course and have a report filed with the University. Conduct yourselves with regards to assigned coursework as to be above any possible suspicion.3 Inclement Weather: In the case of inclement weather where UNO is officially closed on the day of a scheduled examination or assignment due date; the test date or due date will be